A272 crash in Chichester on 16 October 2012 at 12:58 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A car and a Jeep Cherokee were involved in a crash on the A272 in Chichester at 12:58 on Tuesday 16 October 2012. The 50-year-old female driver of the Jeep Cherokee was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2012
- Tuesday, 12:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02295, longitude -0.50626, in the RH14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471205463
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2005.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A272 in Chichester, 14 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005470506580
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 13 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470809847
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A272 in Chichester, 21 October 1993
14 m awayRef 199347YA30646
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 16 April 2022
18 m awayRef 2022471167126
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 10 August 1983
22 m awayRef 198347YA30457
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 20 July 2000
41 m awayRef 200047Y003767
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jeep Cherokee)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2012471205463 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chichester road accident statistics for 2012.